Gestetner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To make a paper copy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəˈstɛtnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gestetner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 969K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 969K (inferred from the name graph)
255 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To make a paper copy.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gestetner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 325 | Gestetner | 92 |
| CA Canada | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Gestetner | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Gestetner | 36 |
| AU Australia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Gestetner | 21 |
255 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gestetner is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, On doit au Hongrois D. Gestetner l’invention d’une machine à reproduire des documents qui utilisait un stencil enduit de cire (1881). Sept ans plus tard, le même inventeur mettait sur le marché un stencil pour machine à écrire.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- David Gestetnerb. 1854HUAustrian inventor (1854–1939)
- Sigmund Gestetnerb. 1897GBBritish businessman and Zionist
- Shragee Gestetnerb. 1986CAcanadian-American Hasidic singer
- Sandor Gestetnerpainter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 325 | #65,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 255 | #75,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 167 | #100,194 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gestetner mean, and where does it come from?
- To make a paper copy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gestetner?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəˈstɛtnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gestetner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 255 people named Gestetner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gestetner.
- How common is the name Gestetner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 255 people named Gestetner in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gestetnerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gestetner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.